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About Me:

existing in semi-active "retirement"
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(i'd want to thank many for "comment forums" to be better than much the same as many "tweets" and even tho if/otherwise/nonetheless i be thought unable/failing to set a better example, etc.)

...i've been invited to marvel when many, from all walks of life, have professed no special interests among/for the very few if/when disposed to be against social drinking, dancing, or music, or what some similarly choose. however rare such invitations be, they are better if in the context of many equally rare opportunities, in the sense that few are less burdensome. H. Ford reportedly said that his customers could choose any colour for his products. But in effect, he required such colours be made evident apart from the black cars he made. thus, some might say he wisely prompted many into their own businesses to paint cars he had sold. "Prohibition," since abolished, also put many into "novel" new businesses. the gist here is the same as folks try to re-invent the wheels of trade--with ideas, just as much else--on the basis of a practical economy, no matter what remains pedestrian from time to time, and what matters most is a matter for many, and often few still protest. if the controversies about gambling completely subside, will the colours of cars then become highly threatened by highway departments (or industry and commerce) strictly as a safety crisis? today it is technically possible that cars literally glow in the dark, or similarly, be stark in sunlight, etc. does this imply that they should? as trends now seem...vested interests might prevail with the highway department(s) once gambling is deemed to be another subordinated subject, and even for the public record(s) that not only historians therefore rightly could organize in timely fashion if without constant harmful revision--etc., etc.

...if in today's ecomomy there is (almost anywhere) merely the steady proliferation of various convenient "feel good" (de facto) IRS "facilities" where the affluent--particularly even in what some (reportedly) often think about as the USA's "bible belt"--could too very easily gain tax credits, then i would expect many useful efforts to prevent any extra confusion, tho therefore also to stifle adequate struggles to improve every opportunity to maintain a vital marketplace(s) for ideas isn't here now also to predict or suggest none often is also to be had by elected persons in/of Vestavia Hills, etc.
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...even tho some might feel prompted by unspeakable, lamentable and outrageously lasting effects of senseless deaths or lasting harm, just as bad could be failure to act by elected representatives and leaders in the public trust. congress has reportedly set aside normal schedules, and many surmise that's to enable way far more attention to matters that, if overlooked, could result in more than the alarms that have been public about the attack in Arizona. yet some remain silent, even some whose experience is well-seasoned. many at least acknowledge they might not know everything some such do. yet some, like Sec. Rice and/or Sec. Clinton, while each cannot say too much, must understand that the experienced and cool-headed can have some quotable remarks from time to time, and each at least could meet august leaders in journalism and their counterparts--at least such could allow reports on such meetings to outline what context for their contributions in the public interest might be, and when, if the attack is to be understood for what it portends. the public is told that many have automatic weapons, etc. some are of the Fourth Estate currently. some are in public service, and not only in a mere technical sense. they have their "weapons of choice," and maybe they have experience that can yield to public interest, directly and/or no less effectively in numerous ways. when attacks on congressional arthorties happen, with assisination concerned as potential or done, then only the wasteful macho sort that has followed often can be replaced by the better and persistant, with more improvements to follow. yes, many can comment--or blog, or more. and for some, with accountability becoming better as a result, of late, such experts can test "traditional" journalism's routine access to "priviledged sources," or there could be too many stories of shared failure than of "only" a few "nominal" losses, etc. if each citizen is apathetic only until his or her member of congress is reported near death, such would be too late for many--and fortunately, surely congress is about to make some (related) changes as a result, if not only more extraneous promises (or worse). for the astute, an ability to "use information" is quite a "weapon of choice," one of many that many strive to master, even if any of yet correctly estimated number(s) nearly always or often don't/won't, etc.

yeah--my portable electricity generator is ready--for keeping/cooking foods, and for computers, lights, maybe blankets, space, etc.--and TV, audio, etc. (tho also, i've a nice set that also has dedicated cell power)...several sets "on hand" here can get ok "off-the-air" signals--even from Tusk, etc., if not from most such sent from nearby!) and such...is ok for me. sure, like for many, many internet streams still have promises to be considered, maybe. and for now, CATV is ok for me and for many, tho i prefer what isn't on the agenda for now.

for me, tho, much of such is ok if instead i can enjoy summaries of such (american f'ball) games rather than only radio/TV during and about such games--etc. in the meantime, i've no plans soon to fetch oil and fuel for said generator, and also, will have marine battery power for a few options, if not all at once, etc., maybe rather than, for now, to oil up the generator motor and add fuel (etc.), something instead i'd do if for an evident outage as was for more than a single and less demanding day, etc., tho for such i've failed to get tire chains at the ready this season, as poor health (etc.) makes their use for only minor errands most impractical--i'd sooner put "vast" costly food and other staples in other storage, or better consumed quickly than already planned, than soon get chains intended for use for several days at once, etc., or only mainly for freezer power in the context of the already-predicted weather systems now at issue, etc.

(ps: for me, "3-D" tv is not yet worth the investments at rates destined to fall soon enuff, etc., if history and trends are as yet expected, etc., tho such surely could be powered quite easily with use of certain "legacy systems," etc.)

...paging only a few of the many featured...in a line-up of remarkably seasoned experts--and unable to complete said effort for some time--yet before having to turn to other matters: i think it fair to expect such as Mr. Barefield and Barefield's peers to find several likley candidates to assist owners and tenants of rentals, e. g., to enable coordination (such as his own, etc.) by interested parties for cooperative owners and lessees of "mini-storage" sorts of space...to manage many ramifications that develop traditions and trends perceived/used by such experts as his peers--many, based on useful personal or other practical experience--increasingly understood quite easily as important in today's economy, and with many quite mindful of what the future holds, etc.

...surely no inappropriate provisions, etc., should preclude such academic scholarship interviews or such school f'ball, and if they did, various rewards inherent to each option, as might be estimated by any qualified for each, most likely, as they could (and often ought) be understood by others, still would mostly be undiminished. the changed plans to game date seem favourable even if stories of "angst" now are also precluded (as they pertain to said play reportedly set for Nov. 18th, etc.), and that permits many several other reports...to interest at least a few....

surely in today's media there are persistant reports about how the economy has impacted voters, or potential/future voters. that campaigns spend monies is no secret, tho such cuts several ways with candidates and their supporters/voters, etc. routine or unusual resources putting judges "on the bench" remain, or they might seem, often problematic and troubling, often even less simple for voters to deem "seemly" or "appropriate" than for other positions by election (etc.). yet many monied are active in politics, and how the poor are represented, if the current economy is correctly understood, and without useless media for too long..., many "open secrets" might be "superceded" by a democratic process yet able to provide voting in one's own interest.

i'm sure that while i cannot cast votes this Nov. 2nd on the basis of much information that others can use, some have "intimated"/suggested that by some time, maybe about two years hence, "then-better-prepared"voters will usually have had a pool of information available that can provide for better results--and this is, in part, because of the choices that will have been made this November--and too, therefore, i might expect that i will not say exactly or much the same about many choices voters will have to make then.

simply unable, despite many efforts by many, to cast an informed vote for either of these two candidates--and as of a generation removed, and with any of my own personal limitations having reasonably prevented our paths from crossing (along with their attention to public and/or private agendas more worthy of their interlocutions, etc.)--i think that it seems "local voters" (and others) cannot err as they might in other contests for elected office..., partially given the way monies politically serve as the "sharp elbows" that figure into winning races in areas where campaigning too often has permitted outrageous claims, including whatever opportunites amount to the use of sharp elbows, if not campaign "elbow grease" to clean up politics and smooth the pathways to better governance that too many find crowded by the too-slippery or the too-slick--or in any way, maybe even worse! yet there's often an "occupational hazard" about DAs and prosecutors, etc., having to do with a kind of relentlessness that some have used as they think of such roles as only interim if they really want to "move on" to "higher office," or whatever; if there's any irony--and indeed, maybe there's none--the holders of such positions, if truly able, often (as a national survey has demonstrated), are not too eager to "abandon" their work to the many merely ambitious, etc.

...Mr. Barnett Wright's report today, about only a few problems the taxpayer must take into account, is, as some say, "better late than never," tho such was of course of no use to voters when any similar such might have led to better numbers (for votes cast) for local (including county) positions, tho of course such is a matter of routine, etc., whether what is said is best a matter of the "public record" or what might have or yet might be such, etc.

in the meantime, and often along with others, i've no reason, for example, if "prompted," to expect what have been fleeting and "ineffective" reports about several statewide--equally "ineffective"--campaign promises about ending any taxes on food (etc.)--much less than ever to afford such "ideas" any "credibility"--simply because too few "important" such promises are really worth much on "goat hill," etc., and of course, as fairly many freely "admit," while promises made publicalllly are usually moot (or worse), many more are made and fulllllfillllled privately as a matter of routine, and...the results often unavoidable when the taxpayer pays anyway.

aside from providing sinecured government workers something else to consider--maybe at acceptable costs to the taxpayer, tho that's not always to be presumed, and such could prove themselves as supporting worthwhile proceedings or otherwise--there is a "fair" presumption that could motivate private planners, in mostly privately-funded ways: many baseball fans surely would continue to avoid any Hoover stadium games..., etc. at the same time, tho, many might prefer no extra local taxpayer costs for any new game site--and some might find taxing visitors any extra amounts only for more local construction for sports to be extremely problematic--unless/until expert journalists (and other experts/authorities, etc.) prove able to bring attention to what some say remain unreported "formal arguments" (etc.) worthy of continuing public interest, etc. (...e. g., some might already know much about what ("problematic") suits were brought in major cities (in OH, for example) where citizens (nevertheless) found themselves saddled with continuing debts for facilities that long proved unable to "pay their own way" (with "gate receipts," ETC.) as developers had first promised, etc., and when originators of bogus promises couldn't pay governments for their costly failures, etc.)

...indeed, in any hectic day for many media (eight daze a week?), that journalism can sometimes "review" various coverage is becoming more timely again--along with other thriving communications options....

one of many services offered by (successful/adequate) media is to enable/provide worthwhile "summaries." reports by alabama journalists can be as useful as "private exchanges" between interested parties, etc. given renewed interest in journalists' "prerogatives," added reader/listener/viewer interest surely could be with respect to "local" journalists' summaries/surveys of coverage of specific "alabama news" by (attributed) journalists elsewhere, etc.

as yet without any reference to the videos included in this informative and useful report, nevertheless, for special attention i welcome news that ending the (state's) terrible grocery tax might be done soon. ending the tax is long overdue. and of course, doing so likely requires a practical set of transitions. my preference is to cut the tax in half right away, and the remainder with cuts each year until the tax is thereby completely ended. a 50% cut right away will partly be mitigated (in terms of tax revenue) by increases in sales of taxed groceries, etc., and such added sales thereby minimize what would otherwise seem to be a sharp loss of state revenue, and at the same time, a 50% cut will more quickly begin providing less-costly items to retail customers, etc.

with this timely announcement about the opportunity to monitor said TV "debate" this evening, already there're indications that if certain questions are answered, or if such be unnessary if what they (the candidates and others) say provided for that, then other questions might be for later, tho now, for me, i'd've been ready for said APT broadcast tonight, even with a portable electricty generator and such with a TV set, had i been able to schedule for that tonite. instead, i might try for a "sports bar" setting in or near BHM tonight, but somehow, i expect debates about tuning for the APT programme might best be forgone in favour of astute journalism on al.com, etc., if not to view an internet stream of some part of the provisions, etc. if the modern Fourth Estate does what it might, then soon, any gas for my own portable elecriticy generator might be just as cost-effective as prior notice about any similar opportunities with the candidates, specifically, with no special thoughts about any problems about enabling APT programmes in a "sports bar" or some such--where, without my own headphones, that might not be better than a good radio version, along with such headphones, in any event. yet if only a few such debates (and various consequent journalism) are planned, i'd likely prefer that i forgo voting in November unless better informed than still seems likely, etc.

merely assuming the specified Court finds that it should act in good faith having to do with documents made public by al.com and others, and other factors, i imagine (for example, in part) there is the possibility that established precedents will prompt several to assert their interests as would include any actions taken with respect to what is operative or determinative, in part, and also as has been or will have been made public by al.com, essentiallyy as part of the establisshed record thus far, "public notice" already having been provided to parties very likely, in effect, in timely ways, therefore, made able to assert their interests in further legal actions, if any, and as distinguished from the possibiities for any finding(s) or decision(s), in effect, that any specific or incorporated process, as intended for consequent relief sought (with respect to what is now also a matter of public record), or other factor(s) also considered by said Court, has already failed or that proceedings cannot yet proceed or be dismissed (pending what the Court might already have taken into preliminary consideration as apart from the public record or otherwise, etc.).

...just a guess, but i doubt avid f'ball sorts will let weather bother them tonite, and many like any weather, even if not avid about sports, etc., and maybe t'day's 4caste is about all i might expect as one preferring alternatives to unhealthy heat and humidity, etc., yet such is likely often for some time this year, if less costly anyway, etc., and while aware of shared options, etc.

surely can't say too much about such problems, but seems media might realize many have been explained, and some reported, and such enables solutions and/or precludes other such from time to time, as part of several trends, etc., evidently notwithstanding media ads that also cause their own problems, etc.

on-line payments can make very good sense, particularly if provisions for such include meeting transaction standards met by such organizations as amazon.com (for example--no "plug" intended). because such private companies offer very complicated services and products, and can satisfy customers very well, customers of a more demanding (and health-related) yet potentially far more simple billing system for an organization ought be more than merely promised the billing and payment results authorities have announced for the very near future, etc.

similarly, standard, uncomplicated facilities might be instituted to enable updates from several government sources between one another (etc.) to prevent many avoidable difficculties. for example, fairly recently i discovered bills for sewer and water were being sent to a dead person--and if such billed accounts are checked against files with death certificate information, then waste might be reduced, or improved upon etc., etc.

first, i offer my best wishes as Chris struggles with health problems better than some can.

...then, i'm glad to say, that while i've often been disappointed by "perfunctory" (or worse) debates about various beliefs or theories, and despite such, i've long/often preferred to think that such can be debated for very good results. moreover, this timely report seemingly summarizes remarks very well, and even to the extent that one might imagine the entire event might have been quite very worthwhile--and if any others have, then so much the better, and i'd thank each responsible for a successful and enjoyable debate, etc...too, i would likely try to see the related c-span programme, if able, tho i can't expect that opportunity, given what little such TV i can arrange to view, etc., and i mention that only as part of my thanks for the planned programme, yet with the thought that persons who cannot afford c-span--or, for example, the time for such programmes--or personally to attend such debates--might want APT to offer such, etc.

Mr. Gray's very careful report, particularly as it exemplifies/includes effective attribution techniques that are so rare in some journalism that often they are isolated in ways that would be obvious, surely, if continued enuff..., could remind some (and inform others) about his craft's prospects--and as evidently he probably understands his readers--and the NYTimes, etc., and generally, without causing undue alarm, yet as he addresses alarming problems, etc., tho often complacency also is a policy problem many have considered very serious.